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Claude AI built me a React app to compare maps side by side

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221 points caspg | 2 comments | 17 Nov 24 13:39 UTC | HN request time: 0.445s | source
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caspg ◴[17 Nov 24 13:39 UTC] No.42164142[source]▶
I wanted to develop a simple tool to compare maps. I thought about using this opportunity to try out Claude AI for coding a project from scratch. It worked surprisingly well!

At least 95% of the code was generated by AI (I reached the limit so had to add final bits on my own).

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MrMcCall ◴[17 Nov 24 15:22 UTC] No.42164624[source]▶
The problem is that you must understand that 95% in order to complete the last 5%.
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1. ericskiff ◴[17 Nov 24 15:46 UTC] No.42164767[source]▶
Interestingly, I’m pretty sure they mean they hit the limit with tokens on Claude.

There’s a daily 2.5 million token limit that you can use up fairly quickly with 100K context

So they may very well have completed the whole program with Claude. It’s just the machine literally stopped and the human had to do the final grunt work.

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2. ericskiff ◴[17 Nov 24 15:47 UTC] No.42164771[source]▶
We’ve been hitting this in our work and in experimentation, and I can confirm that Claude sonnet 3.5 has gotten 100% of the way there, including working through errors and tricky problems as we tested the apps it built.